Category to Tag Converter
Since launching tags the other week we’ve had a fair number of people who wanted to redo their categories as tags, probably because you have a bunch of categories you’ve only used once or twice.
Now under Manage > Import there’s a Category to Tag converter, which shows you how many times you’ve used each category and allows you to convert it to a tag so it no longer shows up as a category checkbox on your write page.
Enjoy!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
This is something I definitely need
My categories list beyond the posts on my page!! Thank you.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Works perfectly with the categories I tried… thanks!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Hey Thats Cool Thanks!
October 8th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
great feature. Saved a lot of labor.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Sweetness! I’ve been fooling around with Categories and Tags all weekend, and this is just the thing I need. Thanks lots!
October 8th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
At last! Thank you, Matt!
October 8th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Wow! Great idea!
October 8th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Brilliant, thanks! Now I can get my stuff sorted the way I like it.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
OMG, you’ve just save me about 6 hours of manual work! Thank you SO much!!!!
October 8th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Shoot, can we convert them back? I just changed them all to tags but now I’d prefer to have left them alone:(
October 8th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago…
October 8th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Thanks Matt!
I’ve been waiting for this.
Keep up the good work!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Guys, you’ve outdone yourself! Even with a modest number of posts, it can still be a hassle manually updating each post, which is why I never bothered…until now. I was hoping you guys would do something like this, cheers!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
Good thing! Ahorra muchísimo tiempo!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
This is great, thanks!
October 8th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Well thought! This will be *very* helpful
Thank you!
October 8th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Thanks Matt for the information! hopingly it will be a precious thing for me, and good luck always for you and all!
October 9th, 2007 at 1:02 am
This is an excellent tool. Thank you for adding tags and now for making it easier to move to them.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:15 am
yeah…that’ll make things really convenient, thank you!
October 9th, 2007 at 1:23 am
that´s was awesome…
October 9th, 2007 at 1:36 am
finaly !!!!!! wordpress rocks!!!!!!!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Wow,
That was amazing.
Over 400 categories converted to tags in less than a minute.
The “Write” page is so much cleaner and easyer to manage now.
Thank you,
October 9th, 2007 at 2:16 am
awesome!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:38 am
That’s awesome! I wish I hadn’t done them all by hand already.
Fortunately, I am a fairly new blogger, so it wasn’t too bad.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:53 am
mucho gracias…but I already spent lots of time converting
No worries though….I’m loving the separation of tags and categories so much I won’t whine
October 9th, 2007 at 2:55 am
thank u matt……….a thousand times !!!
October 9th, 2007 at 3:20 am
I could really cut down on some of the lesser ones like [geist]. Thanks,
October 9th, 2007 at 3:52 am
thats gr8 !!
October 9th, 2007 at 3:57 am
thanks
October 9th, 2007 at 5:05 am
Bloody awesome, just what I needed. Thanks mate.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:21 am
Great, something I want was answered. Thanks Matt
October 9th, 2007 at 5:25 am
this is good
October 9th, 2007 at 6:05 am
I have been postponing this job of changing categories into tags and now that its easier should get down to it right away!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Any news on mass editing/changing/adding categories? I’m really waiting for that one…
October 9th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Thank you. My few (but very pertinent!) categories didn’t want to share
October 9th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Just after I’ve been adding tags to all my posts….
October 9th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Thanks for listening to our request. I’m going to try this out.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:00 am
*stops doing the jungle dance*
Thats precisely what I wanted….thanx a ton!
October 9th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Many Thanks
October 9th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Very nice feature. Thank you.
October 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Cool, ty¡
October 9th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
So good!
Thanks, Matt!
Christian
October 9th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
yes! i’m glad i was too lazy to reorganize before now =) thank you, it will be much easier now, once i get around to it…
October 9th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Ah, control.
October 9th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
wow. You guys are the best
.
thanks
October 9th, 2007 at 5:52 pm
You guys just rock.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Fantastic, I have just migrated most of my categories to tags.
Categories are now readable again, and make much more sense.
October 9th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
It’s a good thing you did that – it’s a bad thing that I did the work manually some days ago… [3]
October 9th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I just love converting tag. I could do it all day long.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Cool. It’s interesting to see what categories I use most.
October 9th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Neat-o.
Still not sure how I am going to deal with this Category-Tags thing ….
October 9th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
top stuff, dude.
Ta
October 9th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
October 9th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
excellent – thank you.
October 10th, 2007 at 12:43 am
Most excellent! It literally took me five minutes to clean up my categories list. You guys rock!
October 10th, 2007 at 1:04 am
That’s what I was waiting for… You guys do a good job!
October 10th, 2007 at 4:58 am
that’s a great features
October 10th, 2007 at 5:15 am
good
October 10th, 2007 at 5:18 am
thats good
October 10th, 2007 at 9:56 am
so obvious, so unlikely, so thoughtful. muy bueno Matt. WP i.t. iz teh biznizez.
October 10th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Hey!
Wicked! Thanks wordpress, you rule!
-Graser 10
October 10th, 2007 at 11:34 am
This is great!
October 10th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Wow!thanks a lot!
October 10th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
thanks for informations! we need more please!
October 10th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
like wow, i never would have thought of that, but it makes perfect sense, thanks!
October 10th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
This is insanely great! Thank you WP for always thinking about the community!
October 10th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Thanks!!!
October 11th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
WordPress ***always*** rocks!
So… is there a way we can convert them back if we want? … or even have both? ,,, just a thought.
Anyway, big chunky “Thanks”
October 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Fantastic. I asked about this when you announced tags, went away for a while and like magic you’ve made the tool. Great work guys.
October 11th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
not sure if i will use this right away, but it is definitely a great step towards increasing the intuitive nature of wordpress. great job.
October 14th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Thanks Baby
October 14th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
I love both categories and tags. Thanks guys! WordPress is the best!!
October 15th, 2007 at 7:26 am
Yes, it’s progress but I don’t think it’s complete yet. WordPress have a cardinality problem but haven’t nailed it yet:
Suggestion!
October 15th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Damn it…I should have read this post first, before all the manual labour…lol, oh well, now I know.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
my tag / categories revamp took 96.2342% less time than i had planned
time for wine
October 16th, 2007 at 12:36 am
Thanks for the info!
October 16th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Nicer!
As rightly identified, I’ve some categories which have been very less used. Hence, it would be better converting them into tags of course. And with the toiling made easy, it catches my attention for doing so.
Thanks!
October 16th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
You guys are just too good…!!!
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Cool!
I owe you a lot!
Thanks all admin team!!!